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Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:17:15 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8Parlier And Moroz Are Kite World Championshttps://www.teachmetosail.com/parlier-and-moroz-are-kite-world-champions/
https://www.teachmetosail.com/parlier-and-moroz-are-kite-world-champions/#respondWed, 25 Jul 2018 16:17:15 +0000http://www.teachmetosail.com/?p=24The Formula Kite World championship was held in Oman and was an evenly contested event. The winner of the men’s kite world championship was Nico Parlier from France. He had a very good and dramatic week in Oman and finally was able to win the title. It was a close to perfect display by Nico in Oman for a week and this is what landed him the world championship title. He showed great pace and was guaranteed of winning the title even before the start of the last race. That was the dominance showcased by Nico. This world championship title is an addition to the KiteFoil Class word title that he had earned in Italy last month.

Parlier said that he was very excited about the form that he had shown in Oman. He acknowledged that the competition is getting harder and faced some tough challenges. The speed is improving with every event and is happy that the standard of this sport is picking up.
It was also total dominance in the women’s title race at the Formula Kite Championship in Oman. The 16-year-old American Daniela Moroz was the winner of the event. By winning this world title she now has won two world titles consecutively. She had earlier won the IKA Kite World Championship.

Moroz said that she was really happy with the performance that she had put in Oman. She said that there was a lot of burden on her shoulders as the expectations were very high. She entered this event at the back of the IKA Kite World Champion tag. She is happy to have dominated the event in Oman and end up winning the World Championship here. She said that she was only thinking of having a lot of fun at Oman in order to keep the pressure off her shoulders.

]]>https://www.teachmetosail.com/parlier-and-moroz-are-kite-world-champions/feed/04TH LEG INCIDENT REMINDS BURLING OF SAILING DANGERShttps://www.teachmetosail.com/4th-leg-incident-reminds-burling-of-sailing-dangers/
https://www.teachmetosail.com/4th-leg-incident-reminds-burling-of-sailing-dangers/#respondSun, 25 Mar 2018 21:59:12 +0000http://www.teachmetosail.com/?p=6The incident in the fourth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race (VOC) has reminded Peter Burling of the dangers involved in the sport. The double Gold medallist watched the fourth leg of the race in New Zealand after being excused from Team Brunel in a pre-planned break from the race.

Burling is expected to rejoin his team early next month when they begin the trip to Auckland. He says going forward safety will be a major issue following the incident with Vestas 11th Hour Racing. The leg from Melbourne to Hong Kong saw an incident involving the racing vessel and a fishing vessel. It happened 30 miles off the coast of Hong Kong on Saturday. The 10 crew members were thrown into the sea while the fisherman was injured and then rushed to the hospital where he later died.

“There’s definitely a level of risk with what we do. I don’t know the facts around what happened with Vestas, but our thoughts are with [Vestas] and the crew of the fishing boat. It’s such a tragic thing to happen. We’re always very conscious of safety anyway, but it’s definitely a sobering reminder of what can happen when things go wrong,” Burling said.

The fourth leg also saw a man-overboard incident on Team Scallywag who eventually won the race into Hong Kong. During a sail change of wind 15-20 knots, a crew member Alex Gough went overboard. The team recovered him and continued within seven minutes.

Burling said Team Scallywag was “incredibly lucky” as it was warm water, daytime and relatively light conditions. He added that since everyone was up, they could react quickly and since it was during a sail change, they could turn around and get the man overboard on time.